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school no more that day. Presently Becky began to suspect. She ran to the door; he was not in sight; she flew
around to the play-yard; he was not there. Then she called:

"Tom! Come back, Tom!"

She listened intently, but there was no answer. She had no companions but silence and loneliness. So she sat
down to cry again and upbraid herself; and by this time the scholars began to gather again, and she had to hide
her griefs and still her broken heart and take up the cross of a long, dreary, aching afternoon, with none among
the strangers about her to exchange sorrows with.